1. The ASBU Law Faculty Journal adheres to the research and publication principles and ethical values that it has accepted and announced.

2. ASBU Journal of Faculty of Law is published twice a year, in June and December, electronically. A maximum of fifteen papers are published in each issue. The deadline for submission of articles is 1 April for the June issue and 1 October for the December issue. Works submitted after these dates, works accepted after the maximum number of publications for the issue has been reached, and works in progress at the time of publication will be considered for the following issue. In order to ensure that the manuscript processes are carried out properly and that the number of works to be published in the journal issues is balanced, the Editorial Board may close the journal for acceptance of manuscripts.

3. The Editor-in-Chief is appointed by the ASBU Coordinator of Scientific Publications upon the recommendation or approval of the Dean of the ASBU Faculty of Law. Editors and officers of the Journal shall be appointed by the Editor-in-Chief with the approval of the Dean.

4. The principle of double-blind review is applied in the evaluation of the article. The names of referees will not be published. Persons working in the same institution as the author cannot act as editors and referees in the evaluation process of the paper.

5. Fee policy: The submission/processing of articles is free of charge. No fee will be charged to the author or his/her institution under any name. Editors and reviewers will not be paid.

6. Similarity and plagiarism policy: Manuscripts submitted to the journal are checked for plagiarism at the preliminary review stage. Papers with more than 15% similarity in the similarity report, excluding references and quoted expressions, will be rejected outright. If a paper is found to be in breach of publication ethics standards, action will be taken in accordance with accepted ethical principles and standards, and a warning will be issued.

7. Open Access Policy: Works published in the ASBU Law Faculty Journal are open access and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence. Readers may read, download, copy or reproduce the full texts of the works published in the Journal without the permission of the authors or the publisher, provided that they do not use them for commercial purposes and that they cite them where appropriate.

8. Appeals policy: Elsevier's Appeals Policy applies in the event of an author's appeal against editorial decisions (see https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/editorial-decision-appeals-policy for more information).

9. Correction and retraction policy: The process is carried out in accordance with the principles and procedures accepted in the COPE Retraction Guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines) and the Elsevier Correction, Retraction and Removal Policy (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal).

10. Copyright policy: If the papers are accepted for publication, all publication rights of the papers, including electronic publication, belong to Ankara Social Sciences University Faculty of Law. No royalties will be paid to the authors.

11. The number of works published in one issue by authors belonging to the same institution shall not exceed fifty percent of the works in that issue. Only one work by an author may be submitted for review in any calendar year; no more than one work may be published in the same issue or in four consecutive issues. Accordingly, the later work submitted by the author will be returned immediately.

12. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission of the manuscript to our journal constitutes the author's commitment in this respect. The opinions expressed in the work published in the journal are the responsibility of the author.

13. Authors submitting their works to this journal accept the publication policy of the ASBU Law Faculty Journal. The works must be written in 'Microsoft Office Word' programme. The cover page, declaration and copyright transfer form must be signed by all authors and submitted in pdf format.

14. Authors are deemed to have accepted that their work is ready for 'publication' as submitted to the Journal. The preliminary review by the editors will return those papers that do not comply with the scientific criteria, the publication principles of the journal and the spelling rules.

15. The works to be published in the journal can be written in Turkish, English, German or French. The manuscript should not exceed 15,000 words excluding the abstract and extended abstract. The works submitted to the journal must follow the rules of spelling and citation. The manuscripts submitted to the journal should include an abstract of 100-300 words and an extended abstract of 500-1500 words. If the language of the paper is Turkish, the abstract should be in Turkish and English. If the language of the paper is other than Turkish, an abstract in that language and its Turkish and English translation should be attached to the paper. The title of the abstract should include 5-7 keywords in each language and the title of the paper. The extended abstract should be written in English.

16. After the pre-review stage, the manuscripts are peer-reviewed using a double-blind peer-review system. Manuscripts that are peer-reviewed and receive two positive reviews will be published in the journal. Manuscripts with two negative reviews (rejection/major) will be rejected. If one of the referees gives a negative opinion, the article may be rejected by decision of the Editorial Board or sent to a third referee. If corrections are requested in the referee's report, the author can only make changes within the limits of the suggested corrections. After the author has made the corrections suggested by the referee, the paper will be resubmitted to the referee, if so indicated in the report.

17. The Editorial Board makes the necessary follow-ups and announcements regarding the comprehensibility and currency of the writing rules, ethical principles and standards accepted in the Publication Principles; it informs the stakeholders, especially authors and reviewers.

18. The Editorial Rules of the Journal may be amended by the decision of the Editorial Board; the Publication Principles may be amended upon the recommendation of the Editorial Board and the decision of the Dean of the ASBU Faculty of Law, taking into account the opinion of the Advisory Board.